<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sorry everyone! I was not impressed when I realised what I'd asked Linkedin to do!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Yours sincerely,</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><strong>Laura Freeman</strong></font></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 March 2014 12:00, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:exeter-request@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">exeter-request@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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1. Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn (Gordon Henderson)<br>
2. Re: Schools/STEMnet/DBS checks (Mark Evans)<br>
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:16:38 +0000 (GMT)<br>
From: Gordon Henderson <<a href="mailto:gordon%2Blug@drogon.net">gordon+lug@drogon.net</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExeterLUG] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn<br>
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2014, Laura S J Freeman wrote:<br>
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> LinkedIn<br>
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The dangers of auto-uploading your address book to Linked in. They own you<br>
now...<br>
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Gordon<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:20:07 +0000<br>
From: Mark Evans <<a href="mailto:mpe@anacon.freeserve.co.uk">mpe@anacon.freeserve.co.uk</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:exeter@mailman.lug.org.uk">exeter@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
Subject: Re: [ExeterLUG] Schools/STEMnet/DBS checks<br>
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On 14/03/14 12:27, Gordon Henderson wrote:<br>
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> Just FYI, and for others on the list:<br>
><br>
> As a STEMnet ambassador with a STEMnet issued DBS check, I would have to<br>
> apply for another DBS check to do any voluntary work in any Devon County<br>
> Council School.<br>
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> This applies to all STEMnet ambassadors with STEMnet issued DBS check<br>
> certificates for all Devon county council schools.<br>
><br>
> I have had this confirmed by Phil Barrett, Team Leader Safer Recruitment<br>
> Service from Devon CC. (Who had never heard of STEMnet nor code club )-:<br>
<br>
Maybe you should send him the bill.<br>
><br>
> I have asked STEMnet to look into this too.<br>
><br>
> But DCCs stance is that the update service (which all STEMnet<br>
> ambassadors were encouraged to subscribe to) is nine months out of date<br>
> and therefore not acceptable for use in DCC. (I have asked the update<br>
> service for clarification on this)<br>
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<a href="http://www.clerktogovernors.co.uk/dbs-checks-the-new-name-for-crb-checks/" target="_blank">http://www.clerktogovernors.co.uk/dbs-checks-the-new-name-for-crb-checks/</a><br>
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Has some interesting things to say on this matter.<br>
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A question I have never received an adequate answer to is how<br>
Police/CRB/DBS checks can be applied to anyone from outside the UK.<br>
<br>
In the case of ISCA, St Lukes, St Peters, West Exe and Wynstream that a<br>
side effect of the PFI set up is to allow all sorts of people<br>
unconnected with either the school (or DCC) unsupervised access would<br>
seem to be far more of a concern than national educational initutives.<br>
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> If West Exe is an academy school then they may have their own<br>
> guidelines, or they may simply defer back to DCCs rules. I'd need to<br>
> know before going on-site.<br>
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It isn't even that simple. A school's status with an LEA can depend very<br>
much on its history.<br>
There's also the possible issue of "guidelines" being treated as<br>
"rules". Notwithstanding the maxim "Rules are for the guidance of the<br>
wise and the blind obedience of fools."<br>
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> I've just been through all this with another school I had volunteered to<br>
> help run code club with. Phil Barrett is adamant that I must re-submit<br>
> the data for another DBS check, however it means that that school will<br>
> have to pay for another DBS check for me.<br>
<br>
Or he's simply misinterpreting the "rules". Something which commonly<br>
happens with so called "jobsworths". (Even to the extent that such<br>
misinterpretations can be mutually exclusive with the actual<br>
rule/guideline in question.)<br>
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> I have decided to refuse to go through the process again purely on the<br>
> grounds of unnecessary bureaucracy. (I've held an enhanced CRB/DBS check<br>
> certificates for the past 9 years so am hardly likely to fail - this is<br>
> purely a stance against the bureaucracy)<br>
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There have been cases of people making multiple applications and getting<br>
different results back. Such systems will always generate "false<br>
positives". (Especially if there is a lack of an effective feedback<br>
mechanism to deal with these when the occur.)<br>
<br>
So far as "bureaucracy" goes the whole CRB/DBS probably isn't "fit for<br>
purpose" in the first place. Since the Bichard Inquiry seems to have<br>
been more concerned with Huntley's job in a school, which wasn't<br>
relevent in encountering his victims. Whilst ignoring Carr's behaviour,<br>
which directly lead to the victims going to Huntley's and Carr's home.<br>
<br>
(It's certainly not the only case of a system being put into place after<br>
something bad happening probably wouldn't have done much to prevent the<br>
whatever it was. Nor would be effective at preventing something similar<br>
happening in the future. The reason such systems can appear to "work" is<br>
that the nasty people they supposedly "target" are both incredibly rare<br>
and resourceful enough to commit some different, but equally, horrid crime.)<br>
<br>
Bruce Schneier coined the term "security theatre" to describe such<br>
things. About the only thing they can possibly do is make the ignorant<br>
feel better.<br>
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IMHO the issue of staff who are "over-friendly" with their students has<br>
not really been addressed. Probably because it is difficult to know<br>
where to "draw a line" here. Even in cases where the staff and students<br>
do not have any interactions and connections outside the school.<br>
(Possibly teachers, especially women, raping teenagers is considered<br>
acceptable by the PtB. So they will only consider acting next time there<br>
is a murder. Most likely with a "more of the same" response. Rather than<br>
considering the actual effectivness of the CRB/DBS idea.)<br>
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